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by Colin Nicolson (Author), Owen Dudley Edwards (Author)
This book is a microhistory of how friendship operated in the American Revolution. It explores the friendship of two political adversaries whose careers coincided with and were shaped by the escalating imperial crisis of 1760-75: the Patriot and future US president John Adams and the prominent Loyalist Jonathan Sewall.
Author Biography
Colin Nicolson is Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling.
Owen Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh.